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ROBERT C. BENDER, OF ST. LOUIS,

TO WILLIAM A. MELETIO MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT C. BENDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

1S invention relates to improvements in refrigerators; and it consists in the novel arrangement, construction, and combination fully hereinafter described and claimed. p

The object of this invention is to construct a refiigerator consisting of a plurality of receptacles located in compartments of a building and so arranged as to communicate with the various compartments, so that each compartment may be chilled to the desired deee by means ofitheIcirculation of the brine rom the supply-receptacleg to the discharge end of the last compartment.

A further object of this invention is to provide a plurality of compartments, the first having a plurality of ice-receptacles, into which ice and salt are placed, and the drippings from the melted ice circulating through the second compartment and from thence to a third compartment, chilling each compartment by the same supply of'ice to a sufficient degree of coldness necessary for refrigerating purposes.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the invention or refrigeratorbuilding with a portion of the front wall broken away and in section. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail cross-sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the relative position and arrangement of the receptacles forming my invention.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 5 indicates the dividing-line between the first and second floors of a building, 6 the ground floor, and 7 the second floor.

8 and 9 indicate the side walls of the refrigerator, 10 a division-wall, forming two compartments 11 and 12. 13 indicates the top, 14 the bottom, 15 the front wall, and 16 the rear wall, all of said walls forming a complete housing, in which the invention is located.

. The walls forming the housing are constructed in any desirable manner to retain the cold air within, such as is generally Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed December 5,1905. Serial Patented July 17, 1906. No. 290,468.

known in the construction of refrigeratorboxes.

Under the top 13 and located within the compartment 11 is provided a plurality of receptacles 17, extending from the wall 9 to the division-wall 10 and inclined slightly toward the division-wall 10, and each of said receptacles 17 are provided with a projecting end 18, which extends through openings formed in the division-wall 10 and communicates with the receptacle 19, located within t e compartment 12. The receptacle 19 is composed of two end sections 20 and 21 and two side sections22 and 23. The end section 20 is inclined toward each side section 22 and 23 to discharge the drippings passing from the receptacles 17, dividing the same equally to both sides in order to convey the brine from each of the receptacles 17 into the end section 21 through the agency of the side sections 22 and 23. The end section 21 is provided with an outlet which communicates with a pipe 24, which extends downwardly, passing through the dividing-line 5, and empties the contents of the'upper compartments into the pan 25. The pan 2 5, together with a plurality of like pans 26, are suspended to the ceiling or upper portion of the lower compartment 16, and each are tilted slightly in opposite directions and are connected by pipes 27, connecting each with the other and forming a passage for the ice water to circulate from one pan into the other in the direction as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 4, and finally discharge the water through the outlet 28 into a trough 29 and from thence through the pipe 30, which permits the water to discharge either upon the bottom of or into an opening connected with the sewer, as is found preferable in constructing the refrigerator.

The top of the compartment 11 is provided with doors 31, through which the ice and brine are placed into the receptacles 17. The

out wall is also provided with doors 32, through which access may be had to the various compartments. I

he purpose of extending the trough throughout the length of the lower comparttrough and to prevent the same from dripping upon the floor then the pipe 30 may be the refrigerator into a barrel corked and permit the ice-water to remain first compartment, a lower compartment, a within the trough until the same is nearly plurality of pans located within the lower filled. When such is the case, the pipe may compartment to receive the drippings from 46 be led into a barrel or some receptacle and the receptacles in the upper compartments the trough may be drained and the water reand to circulate said dripplngs from one pan moved without causing the floor to become to the other, a trough to receive the drippings wet by the continual discharge. from the last pan, said arrangement of recep- The operation of my invention is as follows: tacles cooling each compartment by one sup- 45 The chipped ice and salt are first placed into ply of ice, substantially as specified.

the receptacle 1? through the doors 31. The 2. Arefrigerator of the class described havdrippings from the melted ice are permitted 1 ing an upper compartment and a lower comto pass through the projecting ends 18 and partment, a division-wall formed in the up discharge into the end section 20 of the re per compartment, doors formed in the top of 5 ceptacle 19, then permitted to pass in oppothe upper compartment, a plurality of tilted site directions to the sides 22 and 23, emptyreceptacles located in the top of the upper ing into the end section 21 and down through compartment'in which ice and salt is placed, the pipe 24 and into the pan 25. From the a second receptacle located within the upper pan 25 the brine passes into the pan 26 compartment between the divisionwall and 55 through the pipe 27, and so on the water is the side wall and communicating with the recirculated from pan to pan, flowing in the diceptacles located in the upper compartment rection as indicated by the arrows and finally on the other side of the division-wall, a disemptying into the trough 29 through the outcharge-pipe extending downwardly from the let 28. From the trough 29 the contents is last-mentioned receptacle through the divid- 6o permitted to pass through the pipe 30. It ing-line into the lower compartment, a pluhas been found by practical demonstration ra ity of pans located in the lower compartin the refrigerator now in use that the comment and tilted opposite to each other, a

artments by means of this circulation are pipe connecting said pans one with the other,

each held to a su'i'licient degree of coldness to a trough located beneath said pans, and a 65 preserve the articles placed therein, and the discharge-pipe extending from said trough,

walls of the various compartments are kept substantially as specified.

sufficiently dry. In testimony whereof I have signed my I claim name to this specification in presence of two 1. A refrigerator comprising a plurality of subscribing witnesses.

upper compartments, icereceptacles located ROBERT C. BENDER.

within one of the compartments, a receptacle \Vitnesses:

located in a second compartment and receiv- ALFRED A. EIoKs,

ing the drippings of the receptacles in the WALTER O. STEIN. 

